茅沅（1926年—2022年10月10日），中國作曲家。他的成名作是與劉鐵山合作的《瑤族舞曲》。多年來，他是中央歌劇院的常駐作曲家之一，創作了1966年與馬飛合作創作的歌劇《南海長城》等作品。[1] [2]1982年，休斯敦芭蕾舞團委託創作芭蕾舞劇《竹畫師鄭板橋》。[3]
A Critical History of New Music in China - Page 346 Jingzhi Liu, Caroline Mason - 2010 " Nanhai Changcheng [The Great Wall of the South Seas] by Mao Yuan and
China Theatre and Cinema Dictionary 中國戲劇電影辭典 - editor Song Jianlin 宋建林 - 1993 Page 378 "【茅沅】〔 1926 —一〉山東省濟南人。歌劇舞劇作曲。 1950 年畢業清華大學 ... 鋼琴伴奏。 1953 年從事專業音樂創作。創作、改編、整理過多部不同體裁的音樂作品,有歌劇《劉胡蘭》〔 1954 年與陳紫、葛光銳合寫〉、《南海長城》〔 1966 年與馬飛合寫〉,"
San Francisco Symphony playbill - Page 106 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - 2007 "Mao Yuan: Dance of the Yao People - Yuan, born in 1926, was for many years composer-in-residence for China's Central Opera Theater. He has also worked in the West. In 1982, the Houston Ballet Company introduced his ballet The Bamboo Painter, Zheng Banqiao, which it had commissioned, and he has been a visiting scholar in the United States under the auspices of the US-China Arts Exchange Center...."
